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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat monitor for Mac Studio
Reviewed in Canada on June 10, 2022
Choosing a monitor for your new M1 Mac mini of Mac Studio is difficult if you’ve already ruled out the Studio monitor because of the price. I agonized over this for a long time, read HUNDREDS of reviews of many different alternatives. I was confused by the many comments about scaling the resolution, how it would interact with my Mac, controlling such things as volume, brightness etc. All things that, on my previous iMac, were not an issue. I hope that this review will help anyone in the same situation feel more comfortable with buying a non apple monitor. First of all, the ergonomics of this monitor. The stand is excellent, height adjustment is so simple, the stand looks great and installing it to your monitor is literally a matter of seconds. The 1 cable connection using the supplied USB-C cable is very tidy and works perfectly. Out of the box, with the display parked beside my wife’s 5K iMac screen, this monitor is slightly less crisp. However, after some tweaking using the very functional joystick/toggle on the bottom of the display, the difference is minimal and more than acceptable to me. I saw several reviews talking about problems waking from sleep on the previous UN model; the problem does not exist here. Monitor sleeps right after I put my Mac to sleep and promptly turns back on when I wake my Mac up. As far a scaling goes, I was confused as to what that was going to do do the sharpness and all round look of the display. It’s totally a non issue. You can change the display resolution in you system preferences to whatever is easiest for you to see and the screen looks awesome. I set the Mac sound output to use the monitor’s audio and I control it just like I always have, from the keyboard. As for brightness, even though this display is speced as 400 NITS, it is plenty bright, I generally have my brightness set at minimum and it’s great. Colours are great and everything is crisp and sharp. The downloadable On Screen Control (OSC) is not quite perfect for this monitor, but adjusting this monitor with the joystick works well. Hopefully LG will update the OSC software. There is a free app available on the web called Monitor Control that lets you control brightness and contrast from your keyboard and it seems to work well. I hope this helps anyone who was as confused as I was. This monitor works great with my Mac Studio and I am very pleased with my purchase. Highly recommended.